Hallene Lecture with Ron Marquardt - The Innovation Gardener: Planting for the Future

Ron Marquardt

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T-Mobile

As Vice President of Advanced Technologies & Innovation for T-Mobile, Dr. Marquardt is responsible for the exploration of new and enabling technologies, partnerships with business leaders in new categories of products and services, and the related industry relationships and investments enabling T-Mobile’s technology, innovation and ecosystem development goals. He also represents T-Mobile at speaking engagements, in press and analyst interviews, and as needed with regulatory bodies and other industry stakeholders. Previously, he held a similar role at Sprint before the companies merged.

Prior to Sprint, Dr. Marquardt was VP of Technology Development at Clearwire Corporation, responsible for that company’s technology strategy as well as the architecture, design, testing, and implementation of its mobile broadband 4G network, devices, and services. He also was CTO at Covad Communications where he led teams responsible for the engineering and network planning of VoIP, wireless, and broadband services across the United States. Prior to that role, he was in various positions at network equipment manufacturers, and was a Program Manager in the Advanced Technology Program at NIST.

Outside of the office, Ron is the Chair of the Board of Advisors for the Institute for Data Intensive Research in Astrophysics & Cosmology (DiRAC) at the University of Washington, and additionally sits on the Board of Advisors of Nok Nok Labs. He is a novice beekeeper, avid photographer and enjoys hiking the Pacific Northwest with his wife and three children.

Dr. Marquardt has an S.B. in Physics from MIT, an M.S. and Ph.D. in Applied Physics from Caltech, and is an alumnus of the Stanford Graduate School of Business.